South African universities must do more to tackle staffs’ race and gender imbalances: There are more black African academic staff at South African universities than before. PeopleImages/Getty Images At the advent of South Africa’s democracy in 1994, an overwhelming majority of academics in the country’s public higher education institutions were white men. Black South Africans …
CBI: organisations that want to end workplace harassment must start by addressing power imbalances: Members of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) – which calls itself “the voice of business” in Britain – have voted on a revamp of the organisation following allegations of misconduct, sexual harassment and rape in recent months. The City of …
Western refugee policies can cause power imbalances in the home, leading to unintended dangers for women: In 2017, the Syrian refugee Abu Marwan killed his ex-wife on the streets in southern Germany in 2018 after she had obtained a divorce from him, was granted custody for her three children and married another man. Afterwards, he …